While Wu Maocai, Huiming and others were full of questions and confused, Fang Chen took Su Yan to the door of a small store, reading room, computer room, etc.

Although it is unclear, and I don’t know what it is called, it is full of confusion.

But this just means that most Chinese people have an understanding of this small house with the five characters "Yinghaiwei Shikong" hanging on the door.

Those who come and go in Zhongguancun are definitely the trend-setters with the highest academic level in China, the closest to modern electronic technology, and the familiar ones, but even they don't know what kind of products and businesses this hut is dealing with.

Perhaps we still need to wait a few more months until a huge sign reading "How far are Chinese people from the information highway - 1,500 meters to the north" is erected, and then we can initially reveal this company called Yinghaiwei.

of mystery.

Yinghaiwei, China's first Internet company, the pioneer of China Internet, used to be China Internet without any rivals!

Two years ago, with Clinton taking office, the United States vigorously promoted the information highway plan, which triggered an Internet frenzy, and human society has since entered the Internet age.

China's Internet era is a little later, and it was only connected to the Internet for the first time last year.

At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications began to provide Internet access services to the society, but this has not changed. The fact that the Internet is still only used by a few elites in Shuimuyuan and the Academy of Sciences.

The founder of Yinghaiwei Company, Zhang Shuxin, is determined to change all this. She wants to make the Chinese people have access to the Internet.

Zhang Shuxin had determined to be Huawei's Marie Curie in his early years, so when he was studying at the University of Science and Technology, he chose chemistry as a major and became the first female student union president at the school and the president of the poetry society.

But later I found that I was not suitable for academic pursuits, and I had an ideal of being a war correspondent, so I chose to work for Science News, and then joined the Academy of Sciences.

Taizong's southern tour in 1992 triggered a large number of intellectuals in government agencies and scientific research institutes to take the initiative to start businesses abroad. They were called the "92 School".

Zhang Shuxin is a member of the 92 faction. She founded a planning company and earned her first pot of gold by relying on her relationship with Science News.

In 1994, she and her husband went to the United States for three or four months and it was an eye-opener for them.

In her words, "That night was like having my eyes opened. The first thing I felt was, 'This is a revolution.'"

At that time, she received calls from more than 30 classmates one after another at the hotel where she was staying. After questioning, she found out that these classmates had found her remotely on a BBS in the class. Throughout the night, her ears were full of

New vocabulary such as E-mail and BBS.

So in 1995, she mortgaged all her belongings to the bank and founded Yinghaiwei with 7 million principal.

But this is just the beginning of a huge challenge.

At that time, China did not have any civilian Internet. Even Huaxia Telecom had not been spun off at this time. It was still a subordinate bureau of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Even the original, first-generation Huaxia Public Computer Internet and the national backbone network

None of them have been built, and the network has only been opened in a few places such as Yanjing and Shanghai.

Therefore, Yinghaiwei has to play many roles and start from scratch.

The first thing to do is to provide access network operators for the public to access the Internet and help users access the Internet.

And because the public doesn’t understand the Internet at all, Yinghaiwei still needs to popularize Internet knowledge and let people know what an Internet evangelist is.

Therefore, Zhang Shuxin built the "Yinghaiwei Time and Space" Science and Education Museum.

As long as people come here, they can use the computers inside and browse the Internet for free. People can use various services such as "forum", "post office", "coffee house", and "game city" here.

And because the market is completely blank, Yinghaiwei still has to find ways to be responsible for producing content and attracting people to the Internet.

Yinghaiwei has also developed an all-Chinese multimedia network system, opening a door to the information highway for ordinary Chinese people at a low price.

Zhang Shuxin opened columns in major news media, popularizing Internet knowledge and spreading Internet culture while telling the Chinese people over and over again that the information industry is an important opportunity for the Chinese nation to rise in the world.

She provided the "China Popular Information Highway" exhibition area to the China Science and Technology Museum free of charge; she cooperated with the Yanjing Library to provide bibliographic inquiries of the Yanjing Library on the "Yinghaiwei Space" online; during the Atlanta Olympics, she opened Atlanta for news units

News information channel to Yanjing...

Zhang Shuxin even hoped that Yinghaiwei would develop e-shopping and presciently issued China's earliest virtual currency "credit points" for online transactions.

This is an undisputed fact. In the early days of network services, Yinghaiwei enlightened the Chinese people's network awareness and played an important role in cultivating the network service market.

It is precisely because of these measures that three years after its establishment, Yinghaiwei has more than 60,000 registered users, more than 50,000 users who subscribe through email, and the average daily total visits to the space-time network group exceeds 500,000.

This was a very impressive number at the time. According to official statistics, in 1997, there were still only 250,000 dial-up Internet users nationwide.

Yinghaiwei Time and Space has become the largest Internet platform in China. It has almost everything that can be imagined on the early Internet. Because of the lack of early websites, it once caused the illusion that Yinghaiwei Time and Space is the Internet and the Internet is Yinghaiwei Time and Space.

From Internet infrastructure, to content platforms, video games, social forums, and e-commerce, for example, these tasks are equivalent to "Huaxia Telecom + Sina + Tianya Forum + Alibaba + Tencent".

It can be said that if Yinghaiwei succeeds in all the fields it is involved in, it is likely to create China's first giant Internet company with a so-called "ecology".

It's possible, it's just possible, but none of this will happen.

Grand visions and surging passion are sometimes powerless in the face of reality.

The construction of the Yinghaiwei backbone network is a huge investment. The national Internet road construction plan is less than a year old. Only the Yinghaiwei backbone network, the national network and nodes in 8 cities including Shanghai have been opened. 50 million has been

It burned down, and by the end of 1997 it had lost nearly 20 million.

Later, a large amount of investment in content failed miserably because it was not attractive.

At that time, Yinghaiwei's employees often said: "We know we will make money after 2000, but we don't know what we should do now."

Soon, Zhang Shuxin was kicked out of Yinghaiwei due to large losses, disagreements with major shareholders and other reasons.

Later, Yinghaiwei, which was once extremely ambitious and vowed to build China's Internet industry, collapsed in just three years!

Looking at the "Yinghaiwei Space and Time" sign above, Fang Chen couldn't help but sigh, and walked straight in with Su Yan.

Wu Maocai and others followed the old rules and scattered around the science and education museum.

After all, this is China, not the United States and Russia. There is no need to stay close to each other, as long as they pay a little attention to ensure that Fang Chen is within their sight, so as not to offend Fang Chen with anything careless.

If news like "The richest man in the world fought with a gangster and his head was bloody" appeared in the headlines of newspapers all over the world tomorrow, then one of them would just get out of here, because they would have no shame to be around Fang Chen anymore.

Stayed.

As soon as she entered the door, Su Yan looked at everything in front of her with some curiosity.

The space inside the house is not large, but the layout is very refreshing. The light blue walls and roof, and the rolling waves, give people the feeling of being in the ocean. There are also more than a dozen computers neatly placed in it.

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But that wasn't what made Su Yan curious. As a student at Shuimu, and often stationed in a national laboratory, she was no stranger to computers.

What she was really curious about was that the people sitting on the computer were both old and young. The older one looked like he was over sixty years old, while the younger one looked like he was only twelve or thirteen years old. If he hadn't seen it on his school uniform,

It said so-and-so middle school, and she thought it was a primary school student.

This is really weird.

After all, at this moment, computers are relatively high-end products in China. Not to mention personal households, even ordinary enterprises and institutions may not have them. They are even mostly concentrated in scientific research institutions and used as production tools.

Moreover, the operation of computers is not user-friendly. Most of them are DOS systems, which require input of various commands to make them function properly. Therefore, operating computers is also relatively difficult for scientific researchers like them.

But now she encountered such a group of people using computers, in a place like this, in some form that she didn't know, how could she not be surprised.

In addition, she also found someone who was specifically explaining how to use computers and software.

"Now, the computers are all occupied, you may have to wait for a while."

A young and beautiful woman in her early twenties had just taught an old man how to enter her name. Then while the old man was excited, she trotted over and said to Fang Chen and the other two.

Fang Chen suddenly laughed, and it seemed that he was regarded as someone who was messing with the computer.

But this is normal. Considering the way he and Su Yan were dressed at this time, it would be strange if one could tell at a glance that he was the richest man in the world.

"How long have you been running this science and education center? How many people come every day?" Fang Chen asked seemingly casually.

"It didn't take long, more than two months, not many people came. After all, there were only a dozen computers, and there were many people who came earlier and occupied the computers for several hours, so the people who came later were

All we can do is wait, and if we are in a hurry, then we will leave of course."

Unexpectedly, Fang Chen would ask such a question. The young woman looked at Fang Chen strangely, but still answered honestly.

Hearing this, Fang Chen suddenly laughed, what is this?

Are they the first generation of Internet addicts in China?

But this is also human nature. The temptation of the Internet is too great. He remembers that when he first came into contact with the Internet in his previous life, he often sat in front of the computer for several hours.

As for later generations, in the era of smartphones, Internet addiction will be even more terrifying, with faster Internet speeds and more entertainment options. He really doesn't see many people who don't check their mobile phones when they go home at night.

Nowadays, the public has no access to computers at all, and the Internet is still free here, so it is completely normal to not want to leave.

"Then this is a bit troublesome. Mr. Zhang has not thought about changing this situation. After all, if this continues, her original intention of establishing this science and education center will be lost." Fang Chen asked.

"Yes, Mr. Zhang originally established this science and education center to allow more Chinese people to understand computers and the Internet. But now, at the end of the day, there are not many new people who can touch the computers. There are only some old faces occupying the computers.

If he refuses to leave, we, Mr. Zhang, will be worried to death..."

It seemed that Fang Chen's words directly touched the young woman's heart. The young woman couldn't help but started chattering.

But halfway through, she suddenly realized something was wrong. How did the boy in front of her know about Mr. Zhang, and what was the significance of Mr. Zhang establishing this science and education center?

Although this is not a huge secret, it is not something that just a stranger can know.

In an instant, Fang Chen cast an indescribable veil of mystery in her eyes.

Biting her lip lightly, hesitating for a few seconds, the young woman asked: "Do you know our Mr. Zhang?"

"I don't know him very well. I just heard about Mr. Zhang's deeds, so I came here to take a look." Fang Chen said.

Hearing what Fang Chen said, the young woman instantly breathed a sigh of relief. It's okay if she doesn't know him.

Although she didn't do anything wrong, the boss's friends are still time bombs. If they think she is neglectful or crooked, it will be enough for her to drink.
To be continued...